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Doncaster Sheffield Robin Hood Airport is situated south of Doncaster. It is the newest airport to open in the UK, formerly RAF Finningley. | Doncaster Sheffield Robin Hood Airport is situated south of Doncaster. It is the newest airport to open in the UK, formerly RAF Finningley. Due to still being relatively new, it is very quiet in terms of movements. This has picked up for summer 2009, with a few new operators commencing flights, however it's not the sort of place you would want to spend an entire day at though, unless you take a good book! Well worth stopping by if you're in the area though, and the authorities are very friendly to spotters. | ||
==Official Spotting Locations== | ==Official Spotting Locations== | ||
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==Regular Traffic== | ==Regular Traffic== | ||
The airport goes through phases of being quite busy, interspursed with hours of nothing. Unfortunately much of the movement occurs before 9.30am and after 7pm, with only 2-3 movements in between. Most days there is no activity at all between 8am and 1pm. | |||
Consult the schedule before setting off to avoid hours of nothing. This can be found here for Summer 09: | |||
http://www.egcn.co.uk/Index_files/dsaschedule2009summerrev1.xls | |||
For Summer 09, the traffic has picked up quite a bit. Regulars you can expect to see are the following: | |||
Thomsonfly (737/757/767) | |||
FlyBe (DHC-8) | |||
Ryanair (737-800) | |||
Wizzair (A320) | |||
Thomas Cook (A320) | |||
BH Air (A320) (Once a week) | |||
BMI (A320) (Once a week) | |||
==Facilities and Transportation== | ==Facilities and Transportation== | ||